Faculty Proposals Collect $250K in Latest GT-FIRE Funding

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 29, 2014

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Office of the Executive Vice President for Research
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Program provides faculty researchers with seed funding for original research and scholarship.

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The Offices of the Executive Vice President for Research and the Provost have announced the latest recipients for the Georgia Tech Fund for Innovation in Research and Education (GT FIRE), a program that provides faculty researchers with seed funding for original research and scholarship.

The Offices of the Executive Vice President for Research and the Provost have announced the latest recipients for the Georgia Tech Fund for Innovation in Research and Education (GT FIRE), a program that provides faculty researchers with seed funding for original research and scholarship.

More than $250,000 will be allocated to eight projects, chosen from 61 proposals reviewed by an internal committee. The submissions, intended to provide the basis for subsequent proposals to external sponsors, were eligible for up to $40,000 in funding.

Education

  • Matthew Baker (Mathematics) — Number Theory And Cryptography: A New Online Course for Georgia High School Students
  • John Haymaker (Building Construction) — A Vertically Integrated Project to Improve Design Exploration and Decision Making
  • Nassim Jafarinaimi (Literature, Media, and Communication) — A Novel Interactional Paradigm in Teaching Quantum Mechanics
  • Anna Joo Kim (City and Regional Planning) — Georgia Tech Community PII: Presence, Impact, and Investment in Atlanta's Historic Westside
  • Marc Weissburg (Biology) — Establishing an Inquiry Based Course in Ecology Using the Blended Curriculum Model

Research

  • Chloe Arson (Civil and Environmental Engineering) — Hydraulic Fracturing: A Case for Ethical Engineering
  • Carol Colatrella (Literature, Media, and Communication) — Innovation and Collaboration in Liberal Arts, Science and Technology (ICLAST)
  • A.N. Otte (Physics) — Research Proposal: An Ultra-fast Readout and Digitization System for Fast Photo Detectors

Chris Jones, associate vice president for research, led the process for research proposals and Donna Llewellyn, associate vice provost for learning excellence, led the process for education proposals.

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